Thomas Hardy Signed (6 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 1st Edition Thus 1969. Illustrated with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Limited edition of 1500 copies this being number 973. Signed by the artist. Half leather binding. Book is near fine and bright. Contents very good. Slip case is very good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18333. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. William Nicholson SIGNED (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 1st Edition Thus 1921.Includes a portrait by William Nicholson signed by him and Thomas Hardy tipped into the front. First Riccardi edition, number 705 of 1,000 copies printed on handmade paper, from total edition of 1,014 copies, here retaining the scarce dust jacket. "Hardy set great store by the volume. hoping it would bring his poetry to a wider public" (Purdy). Purdy, p. 187 Octavo. Frontispiece portrait and title vignette by William Nicholson, with tissue guard. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Page edges age toned. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Spine age toned. Ref19122. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. H Macbeth-Raeburn (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 1st Edition Thus 1895. Includes a signed page by Thomas Hardy. It was never used and the book that it was intended for was never published due to his death. 1st printing in the new edition by Osgood of the Works of Thomas Hardy and complete in it's own right. Etching by H Macbeth-Raeburn, with foxed/browned tissue guard to title page and a map of Wessex. With a new preface written by the author for this edition.Book is very good++ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Small nick to spine top. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17828/18982. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1896. Includes a signed paper slip by Thomas Hardy tipped onto the endpaper. Etching of "Christminster" by H Macbeth-Raeburn, with age toned/foxed tissue guard, and a map of Wessex. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good. A really nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17855. Signed by Author(s).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Edition. New Edition 1926. Includes a signed page by Thomas Hardy. It was never used and the book that it was intended for was never published due to his death. This edition was published in limitation of 1,500 copies and containing a few pages in Chapter X which had not appeared in any previous edition, although they were in the original manuscript. Publisher's blue cloth-covered bevelled-edge boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt. Royal Octavo. 512, fold out map of Wessex. Forty-one wood engravings by Vivien Gribble. Book is very good++ and very bright.Contents good. Includes the very rare wrapper. The wrapper is very good and bright. Large chip to spine top. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. First edition. Two volumes handsomely bound in quarter leather spines and leather tips and black textured cloth boards. Both volumes are near fine in matching Bayntum style bindings. With a touch of foxing in the margins of two pages. The Hand of Ethelberta has Twelve black and white Illustrations by George du Maurier and is comprised of the original Cornhill Magazine issues. It is signed with his full name: "Thomas Hardy" on the title page above the title of the first installment. A Laodicean is published in double-column format and not illustrated. Thomas Hardy signatures are quite scarce on any material prior to 1900. The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1876. It was written, in serial form, for The Cornhill Magazine, which was edited by Leslie Stephen, a friend and mentor of Hardy's. Unlike the majority of Hardy's fiction, the novel is a comedy, with both humour and a happy ending for the major characters and no suicides or tragic deaths. The late nineteenth century novelist George Gissing, who knew Hardy, considered it "surely old Hardy's poorest book".[1]Mr. Hardy retains his light touch. He is satirical without being ill-natured. His satire upon the "London correspondent" of a provincial paper is excellent. The little touches and glimpses of vanity by which he shows off his various characters are capital.[2] It was adapted for BBC Radio 4 by Katherine Jakeways. The one-hour play was released just before International Women's Day 2021, as part of a series on Hardy's women. (Wikipedia) Re: A Laodicean: Not one of Mr Hardy's novels contain more of the facts of his own life than A Laodicean, which was composed on what the author then believed to be his death bed; it was mainly dictated, which I think partly accounts for its difference in style from the other tales. Not only does Mr Hardy's scientific profession speak through the mouths of his characters, but old and beautiful buildings adorn his pages as they do the landscape he loves. (Wikipedia).